New Delhi, February 25 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday barred the media from reporting the proceedings for making agitators accountable for the destruction of public and private properties during agitations as they were "sensitive". Recording at the hearing's commencement that they "required the media not to report the proceedings of this case, which are sensitive in nature", a bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice C. Nagappan in their order said: "We are recording the same in our order and hereby affirming our direction that the media (electronic as well as print) shall not report the proceedings of this case till the final decision." The court then referred the issue to be heard a three judges bench as on an earlier occasion in 2009, the same issue was dealt by a three judge bench. "During the course of hearing, a counsel for the petitioner invited our attention to the decision of this court in destruction of public and private properties, wherein the issue, which is subject matter of consideration, was debated upon. "We are also informed by a counsel that the above matter was dealt with by a division bench of three judges. Since the issue under consideration is important, and the earlier matter was also considered by a bench of three judges, we are of the view, that this matter should also be placed before a division bench of three judges," the court said in its order.
